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Tepeyollotl
Tepeyollotl is a deity of Nahua religious tradition in central Mexico, commonly translated as “Heart of the Mountain.” He is strongly associated with jaguars, mountains, caves, echoes and the hidden powers of the earth. …
Ocasta
Ocasta is a name sometimes presented in modern lists of Cherokee mythological beings, but its traditional identity is uncertain. There is no widely accepted Cherokee story, ceremonial account or historical description th…
Sengen-sama
Sengen-sama is a respectful Japanese name for the deity or sacred presence associated with Sengen, also read Asama, shrines and with the worship of Mount Fuji. In many shrine traditions, Sengen-sama is identified with Ko…
Shadipinyi
Shadipinyi is a little-documented water-being associated in modern English-language accounts with the Kavango River region of southern Africa. It is usually described as a large, dangerous, snake-like creature believed t…
Aethalides
Aethalides is a minor but distinctive figure in Greek mythology, best known as an Argonaut and as the possessor of extraordinary memory. He was regarded as a son of the god Hermes and a mortal woman, and his exceptional …
Nyyrikki
Nyyrikki is a figure associated with the forests and hunting in Finnish mythology. In the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, he is presented as a son of Tapio, the powerful master or spirit of the forest. Nyyrikki’s most distin…
Mothman
Mothman is a modern American legendary creature associated chiefly with Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and the surrounding Ohio River Valley. Reports of a large, winged humanoid with glowing red eyes began there in Novem…
St. Roch
St. Roch, also known as Roch of Montpellier, Saint Rocco, San Roque, or Rochus, is a Christian saint traditionally associated with the care of people suffering from plague and other epidemic diseases. His cult developed …
Po
Po is a Polynesian concept associated with darkness, night, the unseen world and the earliest stages of creation. It is especially important in Māori and Hawaiian traditions, although the meaning and religious significan…
Oculate Being
Oculate Being is a modern descriptive name for an enigmatic supernatural figure or iconographic type associated mainly with the ancient Chavín religious tradition of the central Andes. The term refers to representations …
Tēzcatzontēcatl
Tēzcatzontēcatl—also written Tezcatzontecatl, Tezcatzóncatl or Tezcatzoncatl—is a deity associated with pulque, intoxication and the religious culture of the Nahua peoples of central Mexico. He is commonly described as o…